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Message: <blockquote data-quote="pukunui" data-source="post: 6754735" data-attributes="member: 54629">There is an explanation in the book, on page 16: "Thousands of years after the rise of the great elven nations, hundreds of high elf mages united to cast a spell intended to create a glorious homeland for their race. The spell succeeded, but it rippled backward and forward in time ..." The most recent Sundering is that forward-facing ripple from the first Sundering.That being said, you can also find out more about the Sundering in the various Sundering adventures. From Legacy of the Crystal Shard:Dead in Thay changes that last sentence to: "The intermingling of worlds brought about by the Spellplague also comes to an end, as what belongs to Abeir returns to Abeir, leaving the Forgotten Realms looking much as it did before."So basically: It's an after-effect from an epic spell that some elven mages cast millennia ago, which Ao the Overgod takes as an opportunity to do some tidying up. As for why you didn't get a more behind-the-scenes explanation? Because that wouldn't have been in keeping with the player-oriented style of the book. Most of the citizens of Faerûn aren't going to know why the Sundering happened. Besides - by not providing a concrete answer, WotC is leaving up to individual DMs to come up with their own explanations.Are you not able to come up with that lore yourself?I'd just like to say that I've got the 1e grey box, the 2e gold box, the 3e FRCS, and the 4e FRCG, and so far I'm finding the SCAG to be a useful addition to that collection. Would I have liked for there to be more in it? Of course, but I'm happy enough with what we did get. And I like that it leaves me with plenty of wiggle room to add my own details. It feels more like the 1e Realms, *before* there was a ton of detail for every little nook and cranny of the Realms.Plus, according to Nathan Stewart (WotC's Director of D&D), WotC will be sticking with the Forgotten Realms "for the foreseeable future", so this is not likely to be the *only* FR sourcebook we get. Although, that being said, Chris Perkins did tease us with that "It may not be in book form; it may be like nothing you've seen before" comment in an interview a while back, so who knows really (other than the guys at WotC, of course)?EDIT: I'd just like to point out the sidebar on page 44. It reads:I think it's fair to say that this is going to be WotC's approach going forward. They're *not* going to revisit every last jot and tiddle that's been made about the Realms over the past 30 years. They don't want to drown people in lore. They want to provide enough info that people can get stuck in and start filling in the details themselves. The SCAG is meant to be a springboard, not an encyclopedia. And I think it achieves that goal just fine.</blockquote>

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